An authoritative and beautifully illustrated book on wild food and foraging by one of our leading experts.
A unique photographic guide to finding, cooking and eating wild plants, mushrooms and seaweed.
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Summary
An authoritative and beautifully illustrated book on wild food and foraging by one of our leading experts.
A unique photographic guide to finding, cooking and eating wild plants, mushrooms and seaweed.
Description
Wild food is all around us, growing in our hedgerows and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on inhospitable moorland. In this definitive book, hundreds of these plants are clearly identified, with colour photography and a detailed description. Roger Phillips also gives us fascinating information on how our ancestors would have used the plant as well as including over 100 more modern recipes for delicious food and drinks. From berries, herbs and mushrooms to wild vegetables, salad leaves, seaweed and even bark, this book will inspire you to start cooking with nature's free bounty."I can safely say that if I hadn't picked up this book some twenty years ago I wouldn't have eatenas well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then and it inspires me now" Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Critic Reviews
“"I can safely say that if I hadn't picked up this book some 20 years ago I wouldn't have eaten as well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then and it inspires me now."--Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal, author,”
The River Cottage Meat Book
About the Author
Roger Phillips is an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning thirty years. The author of twenty books, he has consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects. An acknowledged expert on mushrooms and wild food, he has influenced a generation of British chefs.
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Roger Phillips is one of our leading experts on wild food and mushrooms. He has been foraging for decades and has influenced a generation of British chefs. Now, in this beautifully illustrated and authoritative book, he identifies hundreds of edible plants growing all around us, in our hedgerows, woodlands and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on inhospitable moorland.Roger gives fascinating information on how our ancestors would have used the plants, and includes over 150 delicious recipes for food and drink, from bilberry muffins to blackberry and apple jam, from red clover wine to watercress soup.Including berries, herbs and salad leaves, mushrooms, wild vegetables, seaweed and even bark, Wild Food will inspire you to start cooking with nature's free bounty.'I can safely say that if I hadn't picked up this book some twenty years ago I wouldn't have eaten as well, or even lived as well, as I have. It inspired me then and it inspires me now' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
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